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Children
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Complaints about dental benefits provider mounting
The rumblings in Tennessee started earlier this year, after a new company took over the contract to provide dental services…
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Ore. reporter uses data to expose the risks of home births
While beauticians and tattoo artists are regulated in the state of Oregon, midwife certification is voluntary and, even then, the…
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Despite ‘essential’ designation, dental benefits lacking under ACA
State and federal policymakers should take steps to make dental benefits less costly and more widely available under the Affordable…
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The press release that fell and hit its head
Recently, an editor sent me a study to cover on concussions in teenagers. At least, that’s what we thought the…
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Interventions might alleviate poverty’s impact on child health
We know that about 45 percent of American kids are growing up in families that are poor or near poor,…
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What early numbers tell us about kids’ dental coverage under ACA
Children’s dental benefits are listed among the 10 essential health benefits under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).…
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Questions arise about oversight of pediatric dentists, sedation
The state of Hawaii continues to investigate the death of a 3-year-old girl who went into a coma after visiting…
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Studies reveal contradictions in efforts to improve socioeconomic status
“You as a society have made a decision that child poverty is what you want. I can only assume that’s…
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Free clinics mark Children’s Dental Health Month
Open wide! A free one-day dental clinic for low-income children may be coming to a school or community center near…
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Food deserts: Just one facet of an obesogenic world
It seems pretty far-fetched that bringing a supermarket to a disadvantaged neighborhood could, in a matter of months, turn back…